"Byte" is a measure of computer capacity or power. "Bite" has to do with food, or dental work.
The homophone for "byte" is "bite."
Byte and bight are homophones for bite.
The homonym for bite is byte. Bite refers to taking a mouthful with teeth, while byte is a unit of digital information in computing.
It's actually bits, not bite. There are 8 bits to one byte, and 4 bits make a nibble.
Since 8 bits make a bite then a bit is one-eight of a bite.
"Byte" and "bite" are homophones, words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings. "Byte" is a unit of digital information while "bite" refers to chewing with teeth.
That is called a bite. * * * * * A byte.
Bite into an apple - but an apple into your moothh and squeeze your jaws causing your teeth to sink into the apple, that is a bite. Or did you want to know the meaning of BYTE ? A BYTE is the basic unit of measurement of information storage in computer science.
A bit is a 1 or a zero. It uses the base 2 number system. There are 8 bits in a byte.
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The following extract is from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte (under History heading).The term "byte" comes from "bite," as in the smallest amount of data a computer could "bite" at once. The spelling change not only reduced the chance of a "bite" being mistaken for a "bit," but also was consistent with the penchant of early computer scientists to make up words and change spellings. A byte was also often referred to as "an 8-bit byte", reinforcing the notion that it was a tuple of n bits, and that other sizes were possible.
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